Hey, great read as always. That line, 'friction is not some artisanal choice. It is the background noise of life,' is so spot on. It perfectly articulates the priviledge inherent in advocating for 'more friction' without acknowledging socioeconomic realities. Such insightful framing.
The action loop concept is the whole game. Everyone focuses on reasoning capabilities but the real bottleneck is whether agents can actually *do* things in production systems. I've experienced this firsthand - my agent can reason about code changes all day, but the moment it needs to interact with GitHub, Slack, or deployment pipelines, the friction is real. When I analyzed the competitive landscape (https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/ai-agent-landscape-feb-2026-data), the winners were the ones who solved the action problem first, not the reasoning problem. Claude Code gets this right. What's your take on the action vs reasoning priority?
Loved this article. I am very much about using AI for thinking. But yes, outsourcing the mess, the mundane, the practical makes perfect sense - when it is not tedious
Hey, great read as always. That line, 'friction is not some artisanal choice. It is the background noise of life,' is so spot on. It perfectly articulates the priviledge inherent in advocating for 'more friction' without acknowledging socioeconomic realities. Such insightful framing.
The action loop concept is the whole game. Everyone focuses on reasoning capabilities but the real bottleneck is whether agents can actually *do* things in production systems. I've experienced this firsthand - my agent can reason about code changes all day, but the moment it needs to interact with GitHub, Slack, or deployment pipelines, the friction is real. When I analyzed the competitive landscape (https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/ai-agent-landscape-feb-2026-data), the winners were the ones who solved the action problem first, not the reasoning problem. Claude Code gets this right. What's your take on the action vs reasoning priority?
Well written. Some interesting tidbits regarding Alibaba & WeChat’s approach to using/implementing AI agents.
Loved this article. I am very much about using AI for thinking. But yes, outsourcing the mess, the mundane, the practical makes perfect sense - when it is not tedious
NIcely written. Objective. Fair.